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I love her so much.

Proud of you my brother. 😁👍🏾

I put this together so I thought I’d share. Here are timestamps for each poem, start and finish. 12:50 - 13:28 I was stolen by the gypsies. . . 13:33 - 14:06 We were so poor. . . 14:07 - 14:54 Everybody knows the story. . . 15:35 - 16:26 Ghost stories written. . . 16:53 - 17:43 A poem about sitting. . . 17:50 - 18:45 My guardian angel. . . 18:49 - 19:56 Once I knew. . . 23:29 - 26:43 St. Thomas Aquinas 28:12 - 31:35 Shelley 32:00 - 33:54 Paradise 34:56 - 36:12 In the Library 36:58 - 37:54 The Congress of the Insomniacs 39:21 - 40:27 The Prodigal 40:35 - 41:58 Clouds Gathering 43:00 - 44:22 Evening Walk 46:06 - 47:21 Beauty 49:20 - 50:41 Reading History 50:54 - 52:24 Via del Tritone 53:09 - 54:31 The Old World 54:58 - 56:05 Country Fair

I was sitting with Harry Crews in his office at his Broward JC office when a box of books of his first novel was delivered. He signed and dated the very first book for me. We were pals. I think the loss of his little boy destroyed him.

One of my favorite writers. Brilliant.

How was he off camera? Was he chill cool guy?

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What a wonderful historic conversation. Fuentes is brilliant.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this reading.

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Poetry is definitely healing, and nurturing.

Rest In Peace to my grandfather 💙

This is the stuff of legends

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Who r the character in this story name

I appreciate your way of “self” the one self, concrete and makes sense Mr. Lee even this comment is in the past. I have heard it said mind is the big it and all it, did you say that to?

Such a brilliant woman.

had him Eng 101 first quarter freshman and Creative Writing final quarter Senior. he opened my eyes to language for the first time and inspired me to write my own stories. A Childhood is a masterpiece.

8:33 intro (Reading short poems - made-up titles below) 11:50 (intro: autobiography notes) 12:50 poem Freud and gypsies 14:00 poem story about his grandad and Freud 15:50 poem about emily dickinson 16:50 poem anima on roof 18:00 poem guardian angel -------- 20:00 Gods and devils book - hitchhike to NYC 1958 - poems about coming to NYC and what he was reading then 23:30 St Thomas Aq. "i am a medieval philosopher in exile" (he tells his landlord) 27:00 (about Shelly and then a poem of that title) 28:10 Shelly (30:50 he describes beggar like fencing master victorious) 32:10 Paradise "madness or you might call it paradise" 34:00 (introL he talks about his love of libraries - talking about octavio paz) 35:00 a dictionary of angels (about being in library and mysteries in unopened books) 35:10 congress of the insomniacs 39:20 Prodigal (about skinhead/hare krishna?) ------------ Poems from New Hampshire 40:38 Evening Poem ("like tragic actors in a theater on fire" sort of like Bukowski - New hampshire setting w wife) 42:44(intro: never got emerson and nature: nature is so cruel in new hampshire) 43:05 Evening Walk ("birds like children that won't come in from darkening woods") ------------- 45:20 (intro: student asked him about what Beauty with cap B was -- as in the 19th century writers") 46:05 Beauty 47:50 (intro another poem about a library and his experience reading history there - war casualties) 49:20 Reading HIstory -------- Rome 51:00 (poem about rome) "that monstrous heat that gives birth to false memories") 52:20 another Rome poem 53:18 THe Old WOrld -------- New Hampshire 55:04 Country Faire

A great man with great skill.

26:26 routes

What’s the date of the event?

Like my o man used to say, a spade is a spade. Brother Brathwaite always calls it the way he sees it, doesn't he?

Is there a longer version of this anywhere? It just cuts off mid sentence.

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He was my hero at Broward Junior College in 1966. I had just gotten out of the Navy. We spent hours in his office, laughing and enjoying our conversations. He was 31; I was 21. God bless you, Harry!

Just ordered his first book (1965) from Amazon.

Thanks for uploading! One of my favorite Southern writers.

Thanks for posting!!

Hi there, Thanks for posting this. I was a student in a number of courses Moira gave at Sydney Uni in the mid 1980s. Can you tell me what she said right at the end of the interview about what she was taking home with her after visiting Gracelands. I could not pick it up from the audio I'm sorry. Thanks

Lee, you're so close to Neruda in choice of words. Can't explain how much you inspire me.

Thank you so much for bringing Harry back for a couple of hours. I'm nearly finished reading all of his novels, and could easily have been one of his characters, but never had the opportunity to meet him while he was still here. I share a kinship with his philosophy that self-competition is the hardest. I never needed to shave my head to be an outsider...my body did that for me. Rest in peace, Harry.